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BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Commissioners of Cabarrus County, North Carolina: That Chapter 38, Article II, Section 38-26 et seq. of the Code of Ordinances, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, is hereby amended as follows: NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE FLOOD DAMAGE PREVENTION ORDINANCE Regular Phase ARTICLE 1. STATUTORY AUTHORIZATION, FINDINGS OF FACT, PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES. SECTION A. STATUTORY AUTHORIZATION. The Legislature of the State of North Carolina has in Part 6, Article 21 of Chapter 143; Parts 3, and 4 of Article 18 of Chapter 153A; and Article 6 of Chapter 153A of the North Carolina General Statutes, delegated the responsibility to local governmental units to adopt regulations designed to promote the public health, safety, and general welfare of its citizenry. Therefore, the County Commissioners of Cabarrus County North Carolina does ordain as follows: SECTION B. FINDINGS OF FACT. (1) The flood hazard areas of Cabarrus County are subject to periodic inundation which results in loss of life, property, health and safety hazards, disruption of commerce and governmental services, extraordinary public expenditures of flood protection and relief, and impairment of the tax base, all of which adversely affect the public health, safety, and general welfare. (2) These flood losses are caused by the cumulative effect of obstructions in floodplains causing increases in flood heights and velocities, and by the occupancy in flood hazard areas by uses vulnerable to floods or hazardous to other lands which are inadequately elevated, floodproofed, or otherwise unprotected from flood damages. SECTION C. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE. It is the purpose of this ordinance to promote the public health, safety, and general welfare and to minimize public and private losses due to flood conditions in specific areas by provisions designed to: (1) restrict or prohibit uses which are dangerous to health, safety, and property due to water or erosion hazards, or which